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♪ >> national presentation of bbc world news is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. anchor: welce to bbc news broadcast to viewers in north america on pbs and around the globe. my name is nm ifejika. these are our top stories. president trump welcomes the historic koreas summit but he warns the united states will maintain preure on north korea until the peninsula is freef nuclear weapons. a former policeman accused of being the so-called golden state killer makes his first appearance at a court in
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californ,0. more than people fleeing the economic crisis in then as we let.ul the numbers cod reach level seen in syria if nothing is done. and having the time of their lives. the poproup abba recordimu their first c in 35 years. ♪ anchor: hello and welcome to the program. if you are watching bbc news at this time on friday, thursday you would have witnessed the start of the histori summit between the leaders of north and south korea is. the interal community have welcomed the talks. president trump says there will beono let up in the pressur the north until the peninsula is free of nuclear weapons.
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the u.s. president said he had a responsibility to strike a deal if possible when he meets the northng leader in the co weeks. stay with us with more on the internationaln react to the meeting. first, we look back at the day's events. reporter: this one outstretched hand could offer the korean peninsula a fresh start. the north korean leader, also a fake -- often a figure of fear, as he took his store accepts south. -- historic steps south. and then he directed the acti, . togethe leaders crossed back and forth over the border that separ tedhem for 65 years. he said heelt a swell of a emotion- of an upbeat honor guard seemed to capture the moment. a new chapter of history is
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being written he said. i came here at the starting line, starting -- firing the starting signal. it was an emotional moment in this class as nearly half of the children in the class are from north korea. many left their families behind. a peace treaty may be the only chance they have of seeing them again. we cannot show some of their faces to keep their loved ones safe. when was the last time you saw your mom? >> i last saw her generally 21, 2 thousand 11. i hope from this meeting can live in a world where there is no war and no more nuclear weapons. porter: the first handshake is always the hard part. after that, it is easy. they did it. we did it. reporter: after lunch, mr cam
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was running -- mr. kim was running late which meant a good cardio workout for his security oftail. and then, in a da extraordinary moments, came this. theypl swent for a stroll. in the most heavily fortified border of the world. and then sat for a chat. while the world tried to lip read in korean. idthey not keep us waiting long for their declaration. >> facing each other, i wholeheartedly feel once again that north and south are the same peopl in the same blood and we should not be separated. >> chairman kim and i reaffirmed today that a korean peninsula t nuclear weapons is a shared goal. to -- toward complete denuclearization. reporter: they toasted the joint
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aim to formally and the korrkn war and wo towards a peace treaty. they have also promised to reunite the milies torn apart i division. on the face of it, these are strong words of ambition and hope. amidst the lofty language, there is little detail. an kim jong-un did not say he was willing to give up his nuear weapons. ♪ reporter: there was more political theater as the two said farewell. just mons ago, they were on the brink of war. now, the world is watching this cewarm emb there is no doubt that it is a good, sta but the way ahead is still not clear. anchor: cannot get over those images. broadly speaking, reaction from
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around the world to the groundbreaking summit has been positive. no'h ko's main ally china says beijing remains readyo help the two koreas resolve their differences. and once again, president trump has said he would meet the north korean leader in the coming weeks. reporter: korean teenagers living i cn japebrating something that many thought they would never say. now, the hope here is reunification of a country that has been divided for more than 60 years. japan has long maintained a hard-line pokotion on north a but news of plannedks tal nabetween trump and kim jong-un appears to have softened tokyo's stance >>co i w the talks as a sign of progress toward the resolution of issues concerning north korea. i hope north korea will take concrete action after the summit. reporter: theis questio --
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after decades focused on developing nuclear weapons, is denuclearization realistic? america is hoping friday's summit will be the start of that process. >> i think some very good things can happen korea.spect to north we are setting up meetings now. we are down to two countries as to a location and we will let you know what that is. reporter: the u.s. defense secretary was asked if he trusted north korea. this was he replied a rare opportunity for a new relationship. >> this is about negotiations and we will bill through confidence building measures a degree of trust to move forward. we will see how things go. reporter: the chinese leader also has done his country will do whatever it can to help north and south korea resolve their differences. many are hoping to warm words lead to a permanent agreent
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with north korea as the state tseems to haen its first steps in from the cold. anchor: let us have a look at so of the other stories making the news. a u.s. judge has proposed -- has postponed a lawsuit brought by the former adult stars stormy daniels. and they said that michael cohen's rights could be endangered while he is under criminal investigation. ms. daniels is seeking to end a nondisclosure agreement. seven children have been and at least 12 injured in a knife attack in northern china. a local news outlet tweeted this picture of a suspect being detained. thincident marks one of the deadliest happenings the country has seen in recent years. archaeologists in peru say they have found what they believe to be the world's largest single
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incident oifmass child sae. the children were found in shallow graves on the cliff in the northwest of the country. it is thought they were killed with a 500 years ago. and envi worried about the decline in the bee population and welcomed an most widely used insecticide in the world. the ban is opposed by some farmers and food producers. a wheelchair-bound former police officer has appeared in court accused of committing 13 murders and 51 rapes. prosecutors's alleged that so-called golde state killer whose crimes or iced communities in northern and central california in the 1990's
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-- in the 1970's and 1980's. reporter: this before you o man is accused of terrorizing california in the 1970's and the 1980's. handcuffed to a wheelchair, d'angelo appeared confused at times as the judge explained he was initially facingou two cs of murder. the accused made no play and was resed bail. in total, he is six -- he is suspected of 13 killings and 5 rapes. many dating to the time when he was a police officer. his lawyer ss he is entitled to a fair trial. >> we have a law that says hocis presumed it until proven guilty. reporter: a father of grown-up children is said to be extremely surprised when he was arrested
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at home in aet q suburb of sacramento last week. the crime spree had begun within 40 years ago, just a half hours away -- just a half d hourve away. detectives have revealed they used a genealogy website to a narrar down their for the suspect who was arrested after officers obtained dna from an item he discarded. relatives of some of his alleged victims were in court. if convicted, he could be cesentto death. anchor: the c ash which killed most of the brazilian football team was caused by a lack of fu and negligence. the official report says the accident said the pilot had radioed the control tower to report a fuel emergency. 71 people died in that tragedy including all but three of the football team. a nior world food program
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officialat has warned he number of venezuelans fleeing the country may rea seen in syria if nothing is down. according to the director, about 35,000 people are entering inneighb colombia each day. he called for a regional summit to discuss how to deal with the rtisis. re:tr them of people leaving venezuela has become a flood. a tiny village in the far north a is overwhelmed a this is just one of many ways out. the government there is says more than a million people have crossed the border since the start of venezuela's economic crisis. alof these mouth need feeding and the world program is asking for $46 million to do that. back in caracas, others are making pns to leave. he is a qualifie dentist but he
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is about to get on a plane to spn. it makes me sad because i will leave part of myself here. all of the plans i had that will not come true. the family and friends i am leaving behind. but i am hopeful becaugs i hope thill go well for me over there. reporter: some are trying to learn new skills in preiaration for departure. even taking classes and bartending. >> most of my friends have left. bmyfriend left. a good part of my family has left. and i h thi lucky they are to be overseas. and then i think of myself in that situation. despite all of the benefits, it cannot be easy. reporter: as theys flee, ts what they leave behind. in thisity, some schools are only half full. the other children have done with their families. wherever they end up, those
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schoolchildren will need ucating, straining the resources of their hosts. and the u.n. has warned the exodus may be helping to spread a new malar epidemic to neighboring countries. venezuela's problems are becoming the region's problems. anchor: staybc with us onews because still to come, it has taken four days but britain's new royal prince has been named. what might have inspired his name. >> internationalre, there has y been protests. there was no warning of the accident.
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the russians idtially den that nothing had gone wrong. when radioactivity levels were increasing outside of russia, that is when they were forced to admit the accident. ♪ >> there is a moot here of great celebration. the end of a 12 year war. they took the capital for which they have been fighting for so long. >> it was 7:00 in the morning. the day that power began to pass from the minority to the majority. ♪ oranhis is bbc news and these are the latest headlines. president trump has welcomed the historic koreas summit but he ils warned that the was wl maintain pressure on the note -- on noril korea uhe peninsula is free of nuclear weapons. a former policeman is accused of being the so-called golden state
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killer. he hast made his fipearance in a california court. joseph d'angelo is accused of multiple murders and rapes. let us return to our top story. abjoining us now iham denmark, the director of the asia program of the wilson program. thank you so much for joining us. are you an optimist or a cynic/skeptic about thismi s >> i think i fall in the skeptic category althoh this is a histori achievement. the meeting of the leaders. the optimism was palpable. there was almost a party atmosphere at the dmz. the challenge is in the details. we have had agreements with north korea before. we have be down this road before. it is the details and
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implementation and verification thatip have d things up in the past. that is where the president is now- eding to find out where north korea is on the substance on these issues and how we know that. anchor: but surely, the president will have his advisers around him and they will havegr done all of thndwork. isn't getting to the stage in itself good enough? >> it is certainly an important step. make no mistake, this is very important. having this meeting. however, the d.l., whatever it may be,as and as complicatet may be, is actually the easy part. after the handshake, what happens after the celebration and implementing the g agreement ng through the complicated steps of making sure that both sides are following through on their commitments --hat is
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where the real hard work begins. that is frankly where all of the problems in this dynamic have been for decades. is china happy to see this happen? >> china is relieved i believe that we are in a diplomatic mode and we are no longer talking about firing and threats of military cflict. they are also pleased at how the meeting went. demonstrating that beijing rs an importae to play. but they know how the story -- but they know how the history has worked as well. a know that the next few months will be absolutely critical to ensuring that we stay on diplomacy. one of their concerns is that if diplomacy fails, president trump has said that it may be down to what he is causingha two, military options as the only option. anchor: ok, thank you so much.
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that was abraham denmark who used to be at thmedefense depa for the u.s. street names in the spanish capital of madrid are being changed as part ofo the move rid the city of any remindersasf itsst past. signs connected to the ruling of dictator franco. spain is still trying to come to terms with its past. reporter: a sign of a different and violent time or a treasured memory of a bygone era. foreople that lived through the spanish civil war and who remember the names the dictator role of franco have mixed emotions. >>hese have been straightening since i was 10 years old and now we are living in a different world. and of course,hey have to come and change everything.
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whatever. if they want to change something, they need to increase our pensions. >> i think it is silly. they areso putting u names they did not have to put up. i flipped out seeing what the put up. i don't want to say anything else. i have had met -- i have had a good life. my parents were not rich. ththey keep doine things. reporter: many of the street names refer to generals who took part in the military uprising against the spanish republic in 1936. and civil war in the following years that killed tens of thousands. general franco ruled spain for over 35 years until 1975. under a law brought in by a previous government, statues can lbe removed and streets w revert to their old names dating
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to rome -- dating t before the regime or in honor of more peaceful ideas. the move to rename about 50 of the streets will continue over the next few days. the process has been fraught with legal disputes and it shows how spain is still struggling to come to terms with its dictatorship past. an when i heard that the swedish superstars abba were going to releaseew songs i had two ideas -- mamma mia, here we gone again and money, money. we have beenistening in. ♪ my, my reporter: 1974, flares, satin jumpsuits, and a song called
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aterloo." wncollectively k as abba putting sweden on the pop music map. >> ♪ waterloo reporter: for nearly 10 years, they dominated the charts and then they called it a day. but now, it is very much a case of -- among the outcome i here i go again. in a statement, the band said -- we all 3 felt that aftyears, it would be fun to joiforces again and go into the recording studio. and so we did. it was like time had stood still and we had only been away on a holiday. it was a joyfuexperience. >> ♪ mamma miahere i go again ♪ reporter: a new song -- two new songs wdee reclast summer
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and will be part of a virtual realityes tour. the on of new music was raised when one of spe band membere to the bbc not so long ago. >> i am not ready to say that yet. >> so there could be new songs? >> you know -- it is up in the r. >> stay tuned. reporter: what the songs sound mystes so far still a but soon, abba fans will get to hear them and thank them for the music, all over again. anchor: the name of the latest addition to the royal family has been revealed. kethe nd duchess of cambridge's third child isouis arthur charles. reporter: it has
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days, twice the time it took to decide the names of george and charlotte, but timely, the new baby has a name. lately. a departure from the anglo-saxon names the royals normally choose. to something that is french and german in origin. what is going on? so this a subtle message of lidarity withur ee or is it that william and catherine like the name? the idence suggests the latter. william was named by hisarents , william arthur philip louis. it charles to his beloved great uncle lord louis untbatten. lord mountbatten ofhaurma who been murdered by the ira three years before william's birth. five years ago, william and catherine named their firstborn son george alexander the way. the name has threaded its way
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through the generations. now, with the arrival of the latest royal baby, the british royal family has a prince whose name has family links and a crs channel connection. loui is a name with a strong european associations in royal terms, most particularly with france. france had 18 kings call lily including the way the 14th who reigned for 72 years. what do people make of the name lily? -- louis? >> we arehe french so we like name. >> i am so pleased it will not arthur. reporter: four days old, and l littleouis is already creating issues. anchor: do not forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter.
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and of course, if you would like to keep up-to-date wh the bbc news, you can always go to bbc.com and get all of the latest there. thank yo bye-bye.for watching. ♪ ormed by thepe national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. sit ncicap.org] ake sure to join me and cohost kristen fraser in london for "beyond 100 days" on monday. we wil focus on the biggest e sues impacting both sides of the atlantic andll provide analysis for how they are shaping our world. we look forward to seeing you here on pbs. national prentation of bbc world news is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>
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